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Research shows smart, psychopathic business managers may be able to conceal their disorder

September 16, 2014 // by Tracy Andersen// 4 Comments

When Carolyn Bates was an undergraduate attending the University of Hudddersfield in England, her final-year project for her psychology degree turned out to be groundbreaking research into the links between psychopathy and intelligence. According to Science Daily, Bates said that she was intrigued by research that showed while one percent of the population were categorized as psychopaths, the figure rose to three percent in the case of business managers. “I thought that intelligence could be an explanation for this, and it could be a problem if there are increased numbers of psychopaths at a high level in business,” she said. After administering a number of tests to 50 participants, Bate …

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“It’s done. I’ve killed them.”

September 10, 2014 // by Tracy Andersen// 4 Comments

On Easter Sunday, 2014, 36-year-old Charles Amon Mihayo, of Melbourne, Australia, went to the home of his estranged partner's parents, where he had made arrangements to see his two daughters, Indianna, three, and Savannah, four years old. He dressed the girls in pretty ballerina dresses that he had bought earlier that day, and had them do a dance in the back yard for their mother and grand parents. Then he brought the girls inside, locked the doors, video recorded them dancing again, and then smothered them to death while their mother and grandparents were locked out. When police arrived Mihayo told them. “It's done.I've killed them.” Charles Amon Mihayo watched his daughters dance befo …

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Study shows family dinners are good for teens’ mental health

September 9, 2014 // by Tracy Andersen// Leave a Comment

A recent study published in the JAMA Pediatrics journal discovered that among teenagers, online bullying (or cyber bullying) is now a bigger problem than face-to-face harassment. More than 20,000 adolescents were measured for their exposure to bullying. Those who had high exposure to cyber bullying also had higher incidents of emotional, behavioral and substance-use problems. According to the study, regular family dinners are good for teenagers' mental health, helping to tackle the problem of cyber bullying. The study's lead author, Frank Elgar, a professor in the Department of Psychiatry at McGill University's Faculty of Medicine in Canada, concluded that regular family meal times …

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Students develop scientific way to reduce date rapes

August 27, 2014 // by Tracy Andersen// 3 Comments

Four students from North Carolina State University invented "Undercover Colors," a nail polish that can detect if a date-rape drug has been added to a drink. A woman wearing the nail polish just stirs her drink with her finger. If a drug is in the drink, the nail polish changes color. The nail polish is a scientific attempt to thwart a nationwide problem. A recent Washington Post analysis showed more than 3,900 allegations of forcible sex offenses on college campuses nationwide in 2012, a statistic that rose 50 percent in three years Undercover Colors is currently raising cash to refine its prototype and pay executives. "We are early in the R&D stage for this important product," sa …

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Kibby arrested for kidnapping teen who returned home after 9 months missing

August 2, 2014 // by Tracy Andersen// Leave a Comment

A New Hampshire man was arrested Monday and charged with kidnapping 15-year-old Abigail "Abby" Hernandez more than nine months ago sometime after she left Kennett High School in Conway. Nathaniel Kibby, 34, was arrested without incident at his Gorham home, about 30 miles north of where the girl lives, and was charged with felony kidnapping, authorities said. After his arrest, authorities surrounded a shipping container on Kibby's property with crime scene tape. It is unknown at this time if Hernandez was kept in the shipping container for any of the time she was missing. Hernandez, her mother, Zenya, and sister, Sarah, surprised people when they showed up at Kibby's …

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Rolf Harris, an entertainment legend in Australia and the UK, found guilty of sexually assaulting girls

July 10, 2014 // by Tracy Andersen// Leave a Comment

Rolf Harris— a household name in the music, art and TV entertainment industries in Australia and the UK for 50 years, has been found guilty of sexually assaulting four teenaged girls. Harris, now 84, was found guilty after an eight-week trial in London. Because of his age and poor health, Harris' barrister Sonia Woodley plans on requesting a reduced jail sentence. Harris had previously received multiple awards, including royal honors such as Member of the Order of the British Empire, which will be stripped. Rolf Harris found guilty of 12 counts of indecent assault of four girls, from News.com.au. Link supplied by a Lovefraud reader. …

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Pro-arrest policies for domestic violence show women arrests growing

July 3, 2014 // by Tracy Andersen// 8 Comments

When it comes to domestic violence, the traditional scenario has been of men abusing and beating women. At the Gainesville Police Department in Alachua County, Florida, arrests of women on domestic battery or assault charges have sometimes outpaced the arrests of men. Bruce Ferris, a former Gainesville police detective who investigated domestic violence cases, said many women charged with domestic violence are themselves victims of batterers and are defending themselves or striking out against repeated abuse. Many states have a mandatory pro-arrest policy, where if police are dispatched to a domestic violence call, the aggressor must be arrested. For officers answering a call, it is …

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Psychopathy experts discuss the role media plays in mass shootings

June 29, 2014 // by Tracy Andersen// 2 Comments

Dr. Richard A. Friedman, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Director of the Psychopharmacology Clinic at Weill Cornell Medical College, recently published an Op-Ed piece in the New York Times addressing the recent spate of mass shootings: Why Can't Doctors Identify Killers? Mary Ellen O'Toole, Editor in Chief of Violence and Gender Journal, psychopathy researcher, and Senior FBI Profiler, Behavioral Analysis Unit (Ret.), posted this response to Friedman in the Violence and Gender Journal: A Different Perspective on the UCSB Mass Murderer And Jacqueline B. Helfgott, Ph.D., author of Criminal Behavior: Theories, Typologies, and Criminal Justice, expressed her opinions on C …

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Women create educational video on sociopathy

June 28, 2014 // by Tracy Andersen// 8 Comments

[youtube_sc url=http://youtu.be/S82-H6qGXwU] Jade Joddle, and her business partner, Charlotte, create animated videos that offer information on love, relationships and personality disorders. One of the videos that content manager, Jade, and illustrator, Charlotte, collaborated on may be of interest to Lovefraud readers: Sociopath Quiz: Have you fallen in love with a sociopath? Link supplied by Lovefraud reader. …

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Prolonged stress damages children’s learning, behavior and health

June 17, 2014 // by Tracy Andersen// 6 Comments

Extensive research on the biology of stress now shows that the healthy development of children can be derailed by excessive or prolonged activation of stress response systems in the body (especially the brain), with damaging effects on learning, behavior, and health across the lifespan. This topic will be highlighted at the National Coucil of Juvenile and Family and Court Judges in July in Chicago. According to the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child at Harvard University, it's important to distinguish among three kinds of responses to stress: positive, tolerable and toxic. "When toxic stress response occurs continuously, or is triggered by multiple sources, it can have a …

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